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You are really not giving enough information to go by, what steps have you followed in the alsa guide and which ones haven't you followed, did you remember to look up your driver in the alsa matrix and add it to your make.conf, did you emerge and run alsaconf, is your kernel modulized with alsa support?

sorry,
no I haven't emerged alsa yet, I didn't know about it, and as soon as my system finishes its current emerging (firefox) i will try the alsa guide.
as for teh kernel modules, I used a genkernel as i screwed up my first attempt at compiling my own, so should it already have the modules?

It is not my fault, look at your signature:P

Okay, msorry, let make it easy:
Yes, you can recompile it, of course
modprobe is a linux command that load a module into your kernel
So, you will to look up in you pci bus (dont do it by yourself, use lspci as root) wich multimedia controller you have, then, in the same line, you will got a alphanuneric code, like 8086aCA or via8233, then, into the /lib/modules/2.6.11(or whatever kernel you have)/kernel/sound/pci
(it changes from kernel to kernel(depends on version)) and see wich drive has a name that looks like the code you got, than, modprobe it:
#modprobe namemodule
if everything runs okay, you will have it enabled, but sometimes you cant use mixer, and have to probe it to, it is in the same line, you see? May be something like AC97, then, look for it and modprobe it, and rember not to use the extensions in the module name, just the name up to the first dot

Re: What the...

Sorry, but I think alsa have not to do with that boy, it is not a module itself!

Try recompiling your kernel wih the correct sound suport! I you made it a modular kernel, try to modprobe it!

Do not do this, genkernel will have the support you need already compiled into it! You should just follow the gentoo alsa guide...i.e. find your card in the alsa matrix, put it into make.conf, add it in with modprobe, and then emerge alsa-utils and run alsa conf...its very easy if you follow the guide and with genkernel you wont have to recompile the kernel!

FOLLOW THE ALSA GUIDE I POSTED ABOVE, dont recompile your kernel, you frankly dont need to if you used genkernel, you just have to add the module in the correct manner, the guide is easy to follow.